[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 88 (Monday, May 7, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20080-20081]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-09668]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for 
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Rural Health Opioid 
Program Grant Performance Measures, OMB No. 0906-xxxx--NEW

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA 
has submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. HRSA published the 
60-day notice on December 15, 2017, FR Doc. 2017-27013. HRSA received 
one comment. Comments submitted during the first public review of this 
ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB will accept further comments from the 
public during the review and approval period.

DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than June 6, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, including the ICR Title, to the desk 
officer for HRSA, either by email to [email protected] or by 
fax to (202) 395-5806.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance 
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Lisa Wright-Solomon, the 
HRSA Information Collection Clearance Officer at [email protected] or 
call (301) 443-1984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Information Collection Request Title: Rural Health Opioid Program 
Grant Performance Measures
    OMB No. 0906-xxxx--NEW
    Abstract: The Rural Health Opioid Program aims to promote rural 
health care services outreach by expanding the delivery of opioid 
related health care services to rural communities. The program will 
work to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to opioid overdoses 
in rural communities through the development of broad community 
consortiums to prepare individuals with opioid-use disorder to start 
treatment, implement care coordination practices to organize patient 
care activities, and support individuals in recovery through the 
enhancement of behavioral counselling and peer support activities.
    Need and Proposed Use of the Information: For this program, 
performance measures were drafted to provide data to the program and to 
enable HRSA to provide aggregate program data required by Congress 
under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. These 
measures cover the principal topic areas of interest to the Federal 
Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), including: (a) Target population 
demographics; (b) referrals to substance abuse treatment; (c) substance 
abuse treatment process and outcomes; (d) education of health care 
providers and community members; and (e) rates of fatal and non-fatal 
opioid-related overdose. All measures will speak to FORHP's progress 
toward meeting the goals set.
    Likely Respondents: The respondents would be recipients of the 
Rural Health Opioid Program grant funding.
    Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the 
information requested. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and

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maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; to 
train personnel and to be able to respond to a collection of 
information; to search data sources; to complete and review the 
collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise disclose the 
information. The total annual burden hours estimated for this ICR are 
summarized in the table below.

                                    Total Estimated Annualized Burden--Hours
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                                                     Number of                    Average burden
            Form name                Number of     responses per       Total       per response    Total burden
                                    respondents     respondent       responses      (in hours)         hours
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Rural Health Opioid Program                   10               1              10              11             110
 Grant Performance Measures.....
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    Total.......................              10  ..............              10  ..............             110
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Amy P. McNulty,
Acting Director, Division of the Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2018-09668 Filed 5-4-18; 8:45 am]
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